Key Skills

The post holder must have:

• You need excellent communication skills. This role regularly requires team members to provide verbal briefings to a range of rank levels within the MPS and partner agencies
• A knowledge of issues affecting communities in London.
• You will have a genuine interest in national/international events, and be interested in different cultures and belief systems. You will have an appreciation of how global events can affect local issues.
• You will also be required to write reports, briefing notes and impact assessments, so high quality report writing is essential
• Though you will work as part of a team, you will be able to work proactively without close supervision, and to identify opportunities and develop ideas
• Strong IT skills. 

Experience

• Experience of community policing would be valuable to understand the structure of local policing.
• A held experience of working with communities and partnership groups would provide good value for the role as a Community Engagement Worker.
• The applicant must have prior experience in report writing and delivering presentations

Desirables

• Language skills
• Analytical skills
• Experience of proactive community policing.
• Experience of multi-agency forums or joint working with partners outside the MPS.
• Experience of working with open source
• Good IT skills, use of word, excel, one drive etc
• Knowledge of social media/ open source research